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More than 30,000 applications
for the iPhone and iPod Touch are for sale in Apple's App Store. Some are great,
some are fluff, and some are just plain bad. But, there are a handful of apps
that all iPhone or iPod Touch owners should check out if they haven't already.
Here are my top 20 such picks.

NOTE

Most of these apps are available for both the iPhone and iPod Touch, though some require hardware features that are only available on the iPhone.

Facebook and FacePhone

The Facebook application may seem like an obvious choice (particularly if you're a heavy Facebook user), but it deserves to be mentioned because it is one of the most well-designed and easy to-use apps out there. It also offers a lot of
functionality for social networking from updating your status to viewing the updates and posted items of your friends and even to chatting and messaging.

FacePhone
is a less well known app that deserves a shout out along with Facebook because
it is a great Facebook companion. FacePhone allows iPhone to integrate phone
dialing so you can contact your Facebook friends directly from their Facebook
information. This makes it a great complement to the Facebook app itself and
Apple's Contacts app because it means that you don't need to duplicate or update
contact information in order to be able to communicate with your friends beyond
Facebook.